She cut her eyes toward him, nodding slightly. "Yes. I suppose it's always important to have hope. Without it, well...what are we?"

There were words for it. Words that she didn't like to use. Chief among them was 'defeated.' Ariadne would never allow the word to be applied to her. And she certainly got the sense that Kirk would agree.

There was just something about him...

"I suppose the probabilities would be on his side. After all, they brought him--all of us--here in the first place." Her eyes raced back and forth as she tried to calculate the odds. She couldn't. There were too many variables she didn't know about.